This project brings together a group of community research associates at OCHIN and OHSU for collaborative work to develop and submit research proposals designed to determine how changes in clinical practice influence health outcomes in OCHIN’s Practice Based Research Network (PBRN), “Safety Net West.”

As a Research Node Center (RNC) in the Community Health Applied Research Network (CHARN), OCHIN is partnering with its member affiliates and academic researchers at OHSU to engage in Comparative Effectiveness Research. The research (and its findings) will be shared among the four research nodes to improve the care provided to safety net patients on a National level.